SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 11 22
Rank change year-on-year -29 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 4 14 3
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 1.75% 11.86% 3.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.53% 41.18% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 2
10th Percentile £256 £316 £374
25th Percentile £324 £355 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £372 £389
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -4.44% -2.81%
75th Percentile £434 £400 £400
90th Percentile £441 £418 £401
Northamptonshire median daily rate £398 £383 £389
% change year-on-year +3.79% -1.48% -2.81%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northampton

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 38 34 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 16.67% 28.81% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 28 3
10th Percentile £309 £302 £375
25th Percentile £377 £356 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £385 £393
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% -1.85% -21.50%
75th Percentile £447 £407 £399
90th Percentile £458 £508 £401
Northamptonshire median daily rate £416 £385 £393
% change year-on-year +8.05% -1.85% -21.50%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Northampton

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Northampton over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Northampton

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (50.00%) QlikView
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Mockito
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Hadoop Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) JPA
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Redux
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (25.00%) Derivative
1 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Greeks
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Scala
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Veracode